Top Ten Things to Know About Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults:
10) LADA is not your fault. It’s one of over 100 autoimmune diseases. Autoimmune means the body gets confused and we mistakenly attack ourselves: in this case, we begin destroying our cells that make insulin.
9) Active, fit people with healthy life-styles develop LADA. We can remain or become healthy with LADA.
8) Simple lab work shows whether you have LADA: an antibody test.
7) Many of the suppositions people make about diabetes do not apply to LADA. Diabetes is an ‘umbrella’ disease, composed of many ‘types’ that are extremely different from each other, just as skin cancer differs from brain cancer.
6) Many with LADA are undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, due to lack of awareness.
5) Ten percent of people told they are type-2 are misdiagnosed LADAs. Misdiagnosis is dangerous, as we likely won’t receive needed treatments, and may receive dangerous treatments.
4) LADA (and all diabetes) becomes dangerous/deadly if untreated. Uncontrolled diabetes attacks our brain, heart, eyes, kidneys, liver, nerves and more.
3) Well-controlled diabetes is the leading cause of… nothing.
2) You can enjoy delicious food while keeping your LADA well-controlled.
1) It’s easier than you might think to be happy and healthy with LADA. Kickass Healthy LADA can help point the way.
